Using Out-of-the-Box Frameworks for Contrastive Unpaired Image Translation for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation: An approach for the crossMoDA Challenge

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to apply and evaluate out-of-the-box deep learning frameworks for the crossMoDA challenge. We use the CUT model, a model for unpaired image-to-image translation based on patchwise contrastive learning and adversarial learning, for domain adaptation from contrast-enhanced T1 MR to high-resolution T2 MR. As data augmentation, we generate additional images with vestibular schwannomas with lower signal intensity. For the segmentation task, we use the nnU-Net framework. Our final submission achieved mean Dice scores of 0.8299 in the validation phase and 0.8253 in the test phase. Our method ranked 3rd in the crossMoDA challenge.

9 pages, 3 figures, MICCAI 2021 Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation Challenge; extended manuscript and modified results